Tseng Chun-hsin (; born 8 August 2001), also known as Jason Tseng, is a

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tennis player. He has a career high

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singles ranking of World No. 83, achieved on 8 August 2022. Tseng is currently the No. 4 Taiwanese player on the ATP tour. He was also the ITF junior No. 1, first reaching this ranking on 11 June 2018 after winning the French Open Boys' Singles. He is also part of the

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since 2018, with a W/L record of 1–0.

Early and personal life

Tseng began playing tennis at the age of five with his father, who worked at a night market in Taiwan. He first trained in elementary school team located in Yonghe District,

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. He is nicknamed "the Night Market Champion" () by the Taiwanese media as his parents used to sell

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at the Lehua Night Market in New Taipei City in order to support his tennis career.

Career

Pre-2019: Junior years

He continued his training at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France from age 13 to 17. During that period, he won singles title at the

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in 2015. In 2018, He won his first ITF Futures event in Vietnam. He won the boys' singles title at the French Open and claimed the Wimbledon boys' singles title in the following month.

2019: ATP and Masters debut

He made his ATP debut at the

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as a wildcard. In the

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, Tseng won the gold medal in men's singles.

2021–2022: Challenger breakthrough, Major & top 100 debut

In December 2021, Tseng won his first ATP Challenger title in

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. He made his debut in the top 200 at World No. 188 on 20 December 2021. He made his Grand Slam debut at the

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where he received a wildcard. The following month in February 2022, Tseng won his second ATP Challenger title in

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, India. In April 2022, Tseng won his third ATP Challenger title in Murcia, Spain. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 110 on 16 May 2022. He qualified for his second Grand Slam at the

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to make his debut at this Major. He lost in the first round in five sets in a match that lasted 4 hours 23 minutes against João Sousa. As a result of reaching the semifinals in

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, Tseng made his debut in the top 100 at No. 97 on 13 June 2022. He participated in the

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as the sixth seed.

2023: First Masters win

Ranked No. 380, he made his debut in qualifying at the Masters 1000, the

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. He qualified for the main draw and defeated Alexander Shevchenko (tennis) on his debut at this tournament, recording his first Masters win. As a result, he moved close to 80 positions back up, one position shy of the top 300 on 16 October 2023.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 11 (7–4)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Performance timeline

Singles

References

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